New Rock Hall of Famers include SD's Ann Wilson

Other 2013 inductees include Public Enemy, Rush, Randy Newman, Donna Summer and Albert King

FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2012 publicity file photo provided by iHeartRadio, Nancy Wilson, left, and Ann Wilson of Heart perform songs from their new album "Fanatic" at the iHeartRadio Theater presented by P.C. Richard & Son in New York. Heart is nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. (AP Photo/iHeartRadio, Peter Larson, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2012 publicity file photo provided by iHeartRadio, Nancy Wilson, left, and Ann Wilson of Heart perform songs from their new album "Fanatic" at the iHeartRadio Theater presented by P.C. Richard & Son in New York. Heart is nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. (AP Photo/iHeartRadio, Peter Larson, File)
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The select group of former San Diegans to be voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has just grown by two, following the Tuesday morning announcement that Heart will be inducted on April 18.

The hard-rocking Seattle band was co founded in the early 1970s by singer Ann Wilson, 61, a San Diego native. She and her sister, Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson, 58, spent a number of years in the 1950s and 1960s growing up at Camp Pendleton, where their father was stationed as an officer in the U.S. Marines.

Joining Heart in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s class of 2013 are hip-hop pioneers Public Enemy (who perform Wednesday at San Diego's House of Blues), Academy Award-winning composer and singer-songwriter Randy Newman and veteran Canadian prog-rock trio Rush (which performed here Nov. 21 at Valley View Casino Center). Two pop music legends, Quincy Jones and Lou Adler, will be honored in the non-performer category.

Also set to be inducted are two deceased music greats, blues guitar powerhouse Albert King (who died in 1992) and disco-and-beyond diva Donna Summer (who died in May of 2012). The 2013 induction ceremony takes place April 18 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, where the new crop of inductees was announced Tuesday by Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers (a band that was itself inducted this year).

The Wilson sisters were not immediately available for comment Tuesday. However, in a U-T San Diego interview last December, when Heart made the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ballot for the first time, Nancy Wilson said: "If we actually get inducted, I'll eat my hat! But if don't get any farther than being nominated, we're happy already."

It was while watching The Beatles’ debut U.S. TV performance on the Ed Sullivan show at their grandmother’s house in La Jolla, in early 1964, that the young Wilson sisters experienced the musical epiphany that set them on the path to their own rock ‘n’ roll stardom. The siblings vividly recount their first Fab Four experience in their recent autobiography, "Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll."

Heart rose to fame in the 1970s, fueled by such high-octane hits as "Crazy on You" and "Barracuda." Their success demonstrated that young women could rock as hard as their male counterparts in what was then a very macho musical arena. The Wilson sisters still lead Heart band today, although the rest of Heart's lineup has undergone numerous changes in the intervening years.

Other bands with a female lead singers, such as Jefferson Airplane and The Mamas & The Papas, have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in previous years. But Heart now becomes the first women-led band -- let alone a hard-rock band -- to earn that distinction.